Professor Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Philippe-Joseph Salazar is Professor of Rhetoric, Life Research Fellow, and Distinguished Chair in Humane Letters at the University of Cape Town. He is also Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Democracy at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He recently held the UNESCO Chair in Philosophy of Peace at the Universities of Moscow and St. Petersberg. An Ecole normale supérieure (Paris) sometime fellow, he studied under Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Levinas, Louis Althusser and Marc Fumaroli.
Professor Salazar has written and spoken extensively on South Africa. Among his works are An African Athens. Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa (Erlbaum, 2002), which studies the rhetorical transformation of South Africa into a deliberative polity, and Afrique du Sud. La révolution fraternelle (Paris, Hermann, Series: Savoirs: Cultures, 1998).